David S. Powers

Law, Society and Culture in the Maghrib, 1300 1500

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Produktbeschreibung

An analysis of Islamic law as it was imposed on the people of the medieval Maghrib.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 459g
• ISBN-13: 9780521120593
• ISBN-10: 0521120594
• Artikelnr.: 27384886

Autorenporträt

David S. Powers is currently Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies at Cornell University. He is the author of Studies in Qur''an and Hadith: The Formation of the Islamic Law of Inheritance (1986), and co-editor of Islamic Legal Interpretation: Muftis and the Fatwas (1996), and Editor of the journal Islamic Law and Society.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; 1. Kadijustiz or Qadi-justice? A paternity dispute from fourteenth-century Morocco; 2. From Almohadism to Malikism: the case of al-Haskuri, the Mocking Jurist, c. 712
16/1312
16; 3. A riparian dispute in the Middle Atlas mountains, c. 683
824/1285
1421; 4. Conflicting conceptions of property in Fez, 741
826/1340
1423; 5. Preserving the Prophet's honor: Sharifism, Sufism and Malikism in Tlemcen, 843/1439; 6. On modes of judicial reasoning: two fatwas on Tawlij, c. 880/1475; Conclusion: the Mufti.